On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:09:01PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote: > > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > > system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > > driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at > > least taht's what the string listing the supported cards says. Do i really > > need a new driver, and if so, how do i get it and load it? > > I can't tell you if you really need a new driver or not but I have been > having some problems myself. This is how I solved it: > > - my NVdriver is loaded as a module. > - lsmod showed that after I updated my pcmcia-cs package the > NVdriver was no longer loaded (no idea) Woah, that's weird... > - I may have been able to just insmod NVdriver to get it to > work; however, I didn't realize it at the time so I reinstalled > the driver > > INSTALL NVDRIVER based on: > http://wojas.vvtp.tudelft.nl/acertm > apt-get install nvidia-glx-src > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src Yep. > (This site also recommends installing nvidia-glx but I can't "find" the > package. There's a reference to it in dpkg but it's no longer found. It > doesn't /seem/ to matter...) nvidia-glx is the package that gets built from nvidia-glx-src. It contains the new version of libGL, amongst other things. > cd /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123 > make Did this really work? Last time I played with these drivers, they dropped tarballs in /usr/src/. To build the kernel module, I just used make-kpkg like normal, and to build the userland GL library I just cd'd into it's dir and ran 'dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us'. > Unfortunately I don't understand how to load the module automatically each > time I restart my computer. Rumour has it you can do so by editing > /etc/modules (note do not touch /etc/modules.conf) Yep, you're right. -rob
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